Thanks guys ! Chord tones and arpeggios are very important so my intention was to present that in a musical way. Hope I managed to achieve it Next lesson will be combination of everything so look out for that solo - can't wait to hear your opinion on that one!

Fantastic lesson, we need more of this kind of lesson. I is very important in jazz that the melody reflects the harmonic changes behind them so it is very usefull to have several ways to aproach this, chord tones are so important, specially guide tones (3rds and 7nths), and also there is this stylistic thing, for melodies arpegios happens more often than step by step scales, and in harmonic progressions, the aproach to key changes is more subtle than in rock or fusion where you just jump where ever you want go go. Oftenly you can group several chords in relation of a target chord, so you can group all by using one scale with several "moving notes" (most of the time using the diatonic scale and altering it to match the chord tones will make the work) but if the articulations and aproach to chord tones and guide tones are not used I wont sound that jazzy. Also we must have in midn that in a 4/4 measure beats 1 and 3 are strong points for the harmonic time.
This is inspiring Pedja, I promise for November a lesson in the Style of Stan Getz and a collab about it for further discussion.

Fantastic lesson, we need more of this kind of lesson. I is very important in jazz that the melody reflects the harmonic changes behind them so it is very usefull to have several ways to aproach this, chord tones are so important, specially guide tones (3rds and 7nths), and also there is this stylistic thing, for melodies arpegios happens more often than step by step scales, and in harmonic progressions, the aproach to key changes is more subtle than in rock or fusion where you just jump where ever you want go go. Oftenly you can group several chords in relation of a target chord, so you can group all by using one scale with several "moving notes" (most of the time using the diatonic scale and altering it to match the chord tones will make the work) but if the articulations and aproach to chord tones and guide tones are not used I wont sound that jazzy. Also we must have in midn that in a 4/4 measure beats 1 and 3 are strong points for the harmonic time.This is inspiring Pedja, I promise for November a lesson in the Style of Stan Getz and a collab about it for further discussion.

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Hello GMC! Welcome to my Jazz series in A minor. This lesson is part 3 of the series regarding Jazz and approach I use over this type of Jazz/Pop/Rock/Blues harmony.

The key of this piece is A minor, and around that A minor I use modal harmony. The scales used as a guide are A natural and harmonic minor. So here we have a modal type of harmony which we will discuss in future parts of this series. Part 1 lesson is melody in style of great Wes Montgomery, using octaves only to create warm and smooth sound. For more info about that check out related lessons section.

Part 2 lesson is soloing on a single string. If you have never approached your guitar with this idea of restricting your self to only one string, I strongly suggest you check out that lesson also in related lessons section.

Part 3 lesson is about soloing using Chord tones and Arpeggios only! There is no chromatic approach nor scale approach notes, just notes that belong to the chords.

Ok, now that we have listed all the chords of the song we can actually talk about what you can do with this information. The idea of this lesson is to solo with chord tones = any note that belongs to the chord above or to solo with arpeggios. The difference is that arpeggio has a specific order of notes while if you solo with only chord tones you can play any note in your order (see spoken video for more explanations and details).

Here are the graphs that represent all these arpeggios through out the whole guitar neck. Check them out, practice them slowly and let me know how this affects your playing.

In this lesson I tried to solo in style of early Jazz and Swing era players.

When you finish this lesson hopefully you would have captured and mastered some of the following techniques:

- Soloing using Arpeggios

- Chord tone soloing

- Rhythmic repetition

- Syncopated rhythm

- Straight rhythm

- Motive development

- Q & A type of phrasing

- Vibrato

- Economy picking

- Alternate picking

- Sweep picking

- Learn to brake down notes from the chord etc

Equipment I used for recording my sound was: Custom built guitar (G.Papazoglou) with Pod X3 live going directly to computer.

Hope you guys will have fun soloing with arpeggios and chord tones, and learn form this piece as much as possible. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments related to this lesson.